From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 07:46:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA22D1065675 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 07:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850818FC22 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 07:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.75]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q577kM5h021714; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 01:46:25 -0600 From: Erich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:46:16 +0700 Message-ID: <2319171.6nCITBFyJ4@x220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120607071014.GA53109@holstein.holy.cow> References: <20120605201900.GB60388@hs1.VERBENA> <1849552.ouQDGJxLWg@x220.ovitrap.com> <20120607071014.GA53109@holstein.holy.cow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Chad Perrin , parv@pair.com Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:46:27 -0000 Hi, On 06 June 2012 21:10:14 parv@pair.com wrote: > in message <1849552.ouQDGJxLWg@x220.ovitrap.com>, > wrote Erich thusly... > > > > On 06 June 2012 23:27:39 Chad Perrin wrote: > ... > > > I have immediately installed FreeBSD on the last four or five > > > laptops I > > > > I do this since 5.2 is out with all my purchases. > ... > > I have to admit, that I have had to install twice Fedora because > > the notebook hardware was not supported at that moment of time. > > > > The second Fedora installation will go as soon as get finished my > > travelling or I get me hands on a new hard disk. > > Erich, could you please list the offending Lenovo models? it is the X220. There is a solution available which needs a bit more time as I have had on hand before I left. As I have said several times already, I will be back with this machine to FreeBSD after my return. > > > ... > > What also has to be mentioned is the fact that people have to be > > more careful when shopping for new hardware with FreeBSD in mind. > > AMD based hardware is here of advantage at the moment. But it has > > other disadvantages. > ... > > What would be the said disadvantages? Some say that the AMD CPUs are slower per core. This X220 with the 2640 CPU seems to be very, very fast for me. I was surprised how it performed running plain FreeBSD. I would not have expected this much performance out of a small notebook. As this is my first Intel CPU since the good, old 80586, I cannot tell you more about Intel CPUs. Erich